Qadishe (from the Syriac word meaning “saints”) is a scholarly catalogue of over one thousand persons venerated in the Syriac Christian traditions. Qadishe includes entries for saints native to the Syriac-speaking milieu as well as for biblical figures and saints from other linguistic or cultural traditions who were appropriated into Syriac religious memory. Individual descriptions of each saint include name variants (in Syriac as well as translation), biographical information such as death dates and related persons, and bibliographies of primary and secondary literature including accounts of the saint’s life. For places and texts associated with a saint, Qadishe provides references to related information in The Syriac Gazetteerand the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca Electronica.

“With its focus on the cult of saints and its literary expression in hagiography, this database offers a new perspective on the richly textured world of Syriac Christianity.”
—Claudia Rapp, Vorstand, Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik, Universität Wien